Who else thinks that 90s music is better than today's music?

Question

Even though I'm only 16, I've come to realize that the 90s had a lot of better music than most of the music released today. LONG LIVE THE SMASHING PUMPKINS!

Answer 1

i thought it was just me. i do often find myself comparing the greats like soundgarden, STP, the pumpkins, Alice in Chains....etc to the emo whiny bands of today and i ask myself "where did all the good bands go?" i thought i was just getting old.

Answer 2

The 90s and the previous years were full of innocence and awesome music. Yes, we were technology challenged but we had a CHILDHOOD.....the simplest things made a child happy like a bike or an Easy Bake Oven. I remember the music and the memories not necessarily the items and objects. It was Girl Power with Spice Girls and Holding Back The Years with Simply Red. Good music where people actually sang and played instruments and if they were deep or had sexual meaning to them, you had to wait until you were older to understand it. It's those simple times....I want them back....

Answer 3

90s music is definately better, but to get the BEST you have to go back further. The late 60s and early 70s contain the best music, and then there is some spill over down to the 50s and up to the 80s (but not much). Music really started to taper off in the 80s with the dawn of MTV and "Cassette Culture." Cassette Culture was a term used to describe the boom in "mix tapes," and other such things that become popular when cassettes made it possible to record songs off the radio and to create personalized albums. These booms in the music industry helped fuel corporate driven record labels that were concerned more with selling tickets and albums than with producing quality music. If it is catchy, gets stuck in your head, and can produce a flock of teenage followers, then it is in. Talent hit the bricks in favor of repetative droning melodies that were easy to remember and even easier to fork over $15 bucks to own. Mass media campaigns pushed bands and albums, making listening to certain music the "in" thing to do. It became about cliques, peer pressure, and, most of all, money. Music was lost on the way and an "industry" was born. The 90s saw a faint heartbeat of that lifeblood that flowed through the amazing music of the 60s and 70s, but it was only a murmer to the all out energy and vibrancy that existed during that era. If you want to hear music that will really rock your world you need to listen to the type of music that pioneered rock and roll. Don't settle for 90s imitations (or imitations of 2006). There are the standard favorites: The Beatles, The Who, AC/DC, Led Zepplin, and so on and so forth. But if you dig deeper, and get into more obscure bands of the 60s and 70s you will find a whole new world of music that is simply amazing. The Stiff Little Fingers (early stuff), The Sonics, X-Ray Specs, and so on and so forth (plus many other of the "British Invasion" bands that didn't necessarily become popular in the U.S.). Long live the 90s, but even longer live the 60s and 70s!

P.S. I personally don't like the Smashing Pumpkins, but to each his own. I can definately agree with your statement that the 90s had better music (for the reasons I listed above), but I encourage you to dig even deeper and go back even further! Enjoy.

Answer 4

The '90s is my second favorite decade of the rock era. It was absolutely great!! The '60s is my favorite, however. It was a period of intense creativity and it had everything from doo-wop to heavy metal...no other decade can claim that! Then here's how the other decades rank in my book:

3). 2000's (a close third I might say)
4). '80s
5). '50s
6). '70s
7). '40s

The '70s is way below the '50 for me. It was loaded with a lot of corporate dictated schlock. Still there were some great songs in that decade.

The '40s actually had some rock (even some that was over 10 years earlier than Elvis). It was all by black artists then and it was amazing stuff. It's just there wasn't a whole lot of it then as there is now.

Answer 5

Representing someone who grew up in the 90s I'll will argue that the 90s had a ton of god-awful music. The most good stuff as a rule came out in the early 90s with the grunge movement. However the whiny guitar "wha wha I have it so tough, gen Xer from the burbs" songs were played MUCH more.

So inconclusion the 90s had about as many memorable songs as any decade.

Answer 6

I agree on that, I am also 16!, and I love the music from the 90s, right now there is nothing to compare with that music.

I prefer to hear Korn, and those bands, than this new things called "I-Scream-more" or Emo, haha, that really sucks, is that competence to see who screams the most?.

I personally liked more the music from the 90s, from RHCP to Linkin Park, from Nirvana to Pearl Jam, from Dream Theatre to Rise Against the Machine. The 90s and the 80s were to me very influential times, and sometimes I whished to get back on time to enjoy this more!.

I dont know what do people see on this new bands, that just care on their look and not on their music.

Answer 7

I like the 90's better than today, but I also believe the 60's and 70's had pioneered and making strong influence in world music up until now...

Answer 8

The 60's and 80's had the best music.

The music from 90's to present were mainly boy bands and girls who dress like street walkers.

I'll be glad when music comes back.

Answer 9

I think that the 90's music is better because there is more feeling in it, and singers/songwriters cared about the way their music affected people. Also I believe that using a computer to enhance your music is retarded, if you don't have enough talent to create a good song then shut up!!!!

Answer 10

I do Long live the 90's